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Turkurz
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open euclidean ball symbol

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Hello,

does anyone know how to create the symbol for an open euclidean ball? In the literature, the symbol blackboard B is used with a little circle over it.

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\overset{\circ}{\mathbb{B}}
What I wish concerning the symbol is that the circle would be directly above the letter B, so that there would be no (or minimal) space between B and the circle (a sort of "tight" circle). I just want this so that the lines containing this symbol wouldn't have an increased height, cause it looks really ugly.

Anyone?
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open euclidean ball symbol

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{relsize}

\newcommand*{\EB}[1]{%
  \makebox[0pt][l]{%
    \kern.1em
    \raisebox{1.55ex}{\relsize{-3}{$\circ$}}
  }%
  #1%
}

\begin{document}
  $\EB{\mathbb{B}}$
\end{document}

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open euclidean ball symbol

Post by CrazyHorse »

Turkurz wrote: does anyone know how to create the symbol for an open euclidean ball? In the literature, the symbol blackboard B is used with a little circle over it.

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\overset{\circ}{\mathbb{B}}
What I wish concerning the symbol is that the circle would be directly above the letter B, so that there would be no (or minimal) space between B and the circle (a sort of "tight" circle). I just want this so that the lines containing this symbol wouldn't have an increased height, cause it looks really ugly.

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{accents}

\begin{document}

$\mathring{\mathbb{B}}$

\end{document}
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Turkurz
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Re: open euclidean ball symbol

Post by Turkurz »

Yesss.

Thank you for both solutions.

Best Regards, Turkurz
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